Automated camera enforcement for alternate side and similar regulations, based on cameras on the front of plows and sweepers, is the best idea I’ve heard for a long time.

In fairness to the media as to all those stories about parking, if you absolutely must have a car in NYC or happen to have one because you once felt you needed it, parking IS an obsession. If you are a fortunate person, it is one of the worst things in your life.

It was great being able to just leave the thing there a few weeks while I got around by bike. And knowing the number of spaces is down because of snow piles, I rushed home yesterday to make sure I could get a legal space (got one a few blocks away).

http://secondavenuesagas.com Benjamin Kabak

The alternate side parking coverage from New York’s media is laughably idiotic.

J

If the Daily News is claiming victory, than we can put the issue to rest simply by adding back a few parking spaces. That is fine by me.

A 20-mph speed limit is a simple low-cost design change highly effective improving quality-of-life and most importantly, safety, to rapidly reduce the extreme dangers that automobiles present on public streets and the resultant monopolies; clearing the way for much more practical mobility solutions.

Marco

So, this seems like as good of a place as anywhere to post this, but I wanted to thank the pair of cyclists who stopped at the red on Sunday at 91st and Riverside. I don’t know if they read this blog, but the matter-of-factly respectful cyclist->pedestrian behavior that they exhibited changes *everything*.

http://www.livablestreets.com/people/Eric Eric McClure

Daily News: “Markowitz initially denied that Scissura had represented him – then claimed, when presented with contradicting documents, that the law applies only to lawyers working for the city as attorneys, not as chiefs of staffs.”